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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1910
Page
8
Tohn Henry recounts moving into a tiny Pullman flat with Clara J and hosting a string of dinners and a house warming. The tale details misfired kitchens by Malvina the cook, poker night tensions, and a lively group negotiating space, music, and expenses in a cramped urban home.
A tale unfolds as a hostess, Jim, and Ciara J. gamble with bunco. A string of lucky and unlucky hands fuels a tense night. The narrator questions who taught the rogue “six” and why TV influences the players.
A Philadelphia operation substitutes gold for the eye’s gelatinous center, giving a glass eye natural life. William Senseman, a Buffalo boy, lost sight after a cement shard entered his eye during play. After failed X rays and magnet attempts, doctors implanted a gold ball with a fitted glass pupil, creating a convincing artificial eye.
A department store manager jokes that men now rival women in bargain hunting. A man grabs a hat from a woman shopper, stuffing $1.25 to the clerk, as others defend equally aggressive male and female bargain tactics.
Two farm workers near London heard a faint meow from within a stack built seventeen days earlier. They located the farm house cat that had been missing during the threshing operation at the Sherwood Forest area farm.
A folksy request imagines an electric button to obtain all food and drink, with Tired Thomas expressing relief at having someone else press the button for him. The tone suggests a humorous, old time dialect crowding around a simple convenience idea.
A Yonkers Statesman exchange ponders if automobiles could be employed in warfare to create a slaughterhouse battlefield. The remark imagines future battlefield tactics and dismisses the idea as grim and potentially deadly.
A reflective piece on what calls a preacher, not a profession, tracing historic shifts from Taylor to modern times. It argues the preacher must be a universalist leader blending Bible study, prayer, service, and societal advocacy while remaining a beacon for morality and truth.
Miss Mabedit Ransom rode 8650 miles from Perry Oklahoma to Lawrence Kansas on the pony Lady Barbet Ascending Mount Oread to enroll in home economics at the state university. She briskly averaged about 60 miles daily, describing the journey as the finest trip with few scares and noting she trusted her pony through sunless days and a long pasture ordeal near Fort Riley.
A Northwestern Christian Advocate quote notes happiness cannot be pursued as an end or sole life focus. It evades grasp when sought as a main objective. it arrives as an incidental result of loving work for others.
Reverend J. M Hubbert of the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia asserts that life continues after death and the soul remains conscious and alert when the earthly body is gone.
A London feature notes Americans view Britons as beggars while praising Dr. Johnson and his dictionary. It recalls the 1747 commission by London booksellers for $7,500 to fund the project, lasting eight years with Johnson directing six copyists. The attic counting house housed etymologies and cited authorities, later erased traces show the copied passages.
Societe d Acclimation de France hosts annual banquet in Paris with a controversial dish roast python from Borneo. The two over ten foot snakes, dated back 15 years, drew hesitant tasting but were endorsed by president Edmond Perrier. Verdict called python neither good nor bad, leaving the public unconvinced.
Carrie Vaughn Anderson who earlier ran for county recorder won by a large margin in Hagle Grove Iowa. An opponent protested her election citing a secret marriage to W W Lucas of Omaha two months before the vote claiming she lacked legal status as a divorced widow and mother of four. Both sides plan to appeal to the courts amid an upcoming legal battle.
The International Live Stock exposition opens today at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago. It draws large crowds from the city and farmers nationwide, with 1191 horses 1194 cattle 1168 sheep and 807 hogs entered in purebred and fat classes. Evening shows for four weeks feature draft coach and saddle horses and driving and riding contests with trophies. An agricultural college exhibit and an intercollegiate stock judging contest are on display. Several stockmen associations will hold annual meetings during the week.
Deputy Sheriff Charles Nason Samuel Wenger and others from Marshalltown were tried in Des Moines federal court for interfering with federal officers work. Judge Smith McPherson censured them then released them on a partial verdict directed by defense counsel H Boardman. Mayor Ingledue and several others were granted liberty.
Democrats from the Fourth Iowa district meet in New Hampton to contest Congressman Haugen's re-election. All counties attend except Worth, home county of Haugen.
Witlan Meyer, a 49 year old farmer near Wort Dodge Iowa, collapsed during Thanksgiving dinner and died of heart failure. He leaves a wife and four sons. November 26 report notes he had been in good health prior to the meal.
In Des Moines on November 25 Shriners from across the state attended the annual initiation and ceremonial at Shrine temple Ninth and Pleasant streets. More than forty candidates were initiated into the Mystic Shrine.
Ernest Wolf, a conductor for the Des Moines Fort Dodge and Southern, died from injuries after being run over in Newton. The body was transported to Boone by special train, with services planned at the Churchill hotel.
Peter Johnson aged 76 a farmer of Lanion crossing was instantly killed when an interurban car on the Fort Dodge Des Moines Southern line struck him as he attempted to flag the train at the crossing.
Eight persons were injured when Missouri Pacific passenger train No 2 collided with a freight train at Otterville Missouri thirteen miles east of Sedalia on November 25.
An article promotes Resinol Soap and Ointment for school and home use to prevent contagious skin troubles and keep complexions healthy. It cites Resinol Medicated Shaving Stick for students who shave and notes the products are widely available with a free booklet from Resinol Chemical Company in Baltimore Maryland.
In a village debate about placing a clock in the church tower John the sexton opposes the plan calling it an awful waste of brass. He micro sketches living by the porch sundial insisting clocks are unnecessary and will only waste funds.
Dialogue shows Dr Dundee urging meat sparingly while Mr Joax claims to avoid meat entirely, stating he eats only lunchroom ham sandwiches. The exchange highlights opposing views on meat consumption.
Byron Bennette of East Liverpool Ohio says six months bedridden with kidney trouble and 80 pound weight loss, misdiagnosed as consumption. After using six boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills he recovered and has remained free from kidney issues for six years. Doan's Kidney Pills are sold by dealers for 60 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Denver physician at dinner dismissed Biblical miracles by sneering that Lazarus was raised from the dead yet no one today is. Rev. Herbert T. Tres ham counters that modern medical science has progressed too far for such occurrences.
A dialogue contrasts airships and airmen costs with experts arguing flying machines will be expensive to operate not for construction but for paying aviators. The debate centers on wartime use and economic impracticality due to salaries.
Druggists offer Murine liquid eye remedy with prices 25c 50c and 1.00 for red tired watery eyes and granulated lids. Murine eye salve sold in aseptic tubes 25c and 1.00. Eye books and advice free by Mall from Murine Byes Remedy Co Chicago.
A compact quotation notes that gold is tested by fire and a friend’s true colors appear in hardship, contrasting noble metal with baser hearts and highlighting loyalty under trial.
An old advertisement style note praises Mrs Winston's Soothing Syrup for teething relief and gum soothing effects. It claims to ease various discomforts in infants and children, with a tone typical of period medicinal marketing.
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